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BORN: Jan. 10, 1937, Upper Darby, Pa. EDUCATION: Illinois State U, 1954-55; Chicago City College, A.A., 1965; Northwestern U, Ph.D., 1968; Loyola U, M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1975 FAMILY: Husband, Frederik Pohl; two children, four stepchildren RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2150 Plum Grove Road, Rolling Meadows...
...rarefied levels of real political power, three women in particular have emerged who may set the pattern for others to follow: Marju Lauristin, the deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament; Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene; and Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, parliamentary president of East Germany until the recent union of the two Germanys. Between them, Lauristin and Prunskiene have managed to place the Baltic struggle for independence high on the world's political agenda...
Germany's Bergmann-Pohl has the poise of a practiced politician, despite her background as a physician. She has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union since 1981 because it was the only way, she says, to have an impact on her country's social problems. But she rose to prominence chiefly because of the swiftness of the East German revolution and its need for new people without Communist ties to take over government jobs. The CDU urged her to run for parliament last March, and when her faction won the most seats, she was named president...
Taking on such a post without any training, says Bergmann-Pohl, "was like a person who can't swim jumping into a river." But she clearly felt comfortable with her position several months later, despite criticism that she is disorganized and dwells unnecessarily on details. When she meets a reporter, she is all careful calculation. "We have got to show that women have competence in politics," she says. She will be a member of the united Bundestag until national elections are held in December. Upon unification she was named a Minister Without Portfolio...
...because of a huge burst of investment and energy that will go into the reconstruction of eastern Germany and the rest of Eastern Europe. The German economy is expected to grow by 3% next year. "At a time when a slowdown is taking place among many industrialized countries," said Pohl last week, "united Germany's economic dynamism is acting as a locomotive for the world economy." Every country is likely to benefit from the huge demand-led expansion generated by the reconstruction of what was East Germany...